#EU lobbying should be:
1) Fully transparent
2) Free of conflicts of interest (i.e. you can't be a corporate #tax adviser, and at the same time a 'neutral' consultant receiving large sums of money to help the @EU_Commission on tax policy) #TaxJusticehttps://www.ft.com/content/56f862ee-8392-11e8-96dd-fa565ec55929?desktop=true&segmentId=7c8f09b9-9b61-4fbb-9430-9208a9e233c8#myft:notification:daily-email:content …
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EU also commissions advocacy work to support its aims (Not always made clear by those doing it, so fuller transparency needed.) Open lobbying has dangers - eh mismatched capacities - but resource intensive if EU had in house ability to do everything. So how to create trust?
You can see why they'd want to contract this out, and probably to a big firm with geographic reach https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/sites/taxation/files/resources/documents/common/tenders_grants/tenders/ao-2014-04/tor.pdf …pic.twitter.com/dwpeIJk4jB
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Not an expert, but happy to offer a contrarian view for the sake of it :-) Given the high political attention and that not all analysis in the area has the rigorousness needed I could see good reasons for EC to scale up their capacity in this area and conduct it inhouse.
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For an institution (EC) which on a regular basis face critisism when it impose rules on member state regulators which are impractical or "out of touch" this type of work actually looks like a pretty foundational piece of research which could help avoid such issues. My 2cents.
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